riffing on the "very sound" of a Saxon word

Image Credit: Celler Devinssi via Duff's Wines

Italicizing the Saxon word and also exclaiming! it at least once in the riff, thus:

The rest of the day is called afternoon; the very sound of which fine old Saxon word conveys a feeling of the lee bulwarks and a nap; a summer sea—soft breezes creeping over it; dreamy dolphins gliding in the distance. Afternoon! the word implies that it is an after-piece, coming after the grand drama of the day; something to be taken leisurely and lazily. --Herman Melville, White-Jacket (1850)

What with inspections, re-organizations, writing reports, &c., I have worked sixteen hours to-day; and it is the least in the world singular that I should be now writing for my own amusement; for any other's, quite absurd! There must he something dry about it for recommendation. Oh! expressive and honest Saxon monosyllable!—dry!—thy very sound is pleasing— the idea rapturous! Only think, though it be extravagant, at this hour of inevitable repose, of a dry blanket! think too of dry wine! --September 1851 Scenes Beyond the Western Border; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army